Mavs on road to start ’19 season

By None on November 21, 2018.

Medicine Hat News

The Medicine Hat Mavericks will get their longest road trip out of the way early as they start the 2019 season.

The defending champions in the newly-renamed Western Canadian Baseball League got their schedule finalized Monday and will open at home Thursday, May 30 against the Brooks Bombers. But after that they play eight of their next nine games on the road, including an annual trip to Fort McMurray for a four-game set.

The 56-game schedule is up eight from previous years, and comes at the expense of a playoff format that gives teams with small, ace-heavy pitching staffs a huge advantage. Instead of best-of-five series, the three-round post-season will be best-of-three affairs. It’ll all be over in 10 days barring any rainouts.

The Mavs get to host Fort McMurray for three games in the final week of the regular season, in which they play five of their last six at Athletic Park.

Also on the schedule is the new all-star game, the first the league has had in a decade, set for Sunday, July 7 in Edmonton.

Edmonton also gets to play before any other team in 2019, hosting Lethbridge Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26.

Medicine Hat hasn’t released any dates for special events yet but one is pretty much for sure, as they host Yorkton on Canada Day, which is a Monday in 2019.

The schedule was sent in a press release by the WCBL, but has not been posted on the league website or by the Mavericks yet.

2019 Schedule

Note: Home games start at 7:05 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 2:05 p.m. on Sunday.

Thursday, May 30 vs. Brooks
Friday, May 31 at Brooks
Saturday, June 1 at Lethbridge
Monday, June 3 vs. Lethbridge
Tuesday, June 4 at Edmonton
Wednesday, June 5 at Edmonton
Thursday, June 6 at Fort McMurray
Friday, June 7 at Fort McMurray
Saturday, June 8 at Fort McMurray
Sunday, June 9 at Fort McMurray
Tuesday, June 11 vs. Fort McMurray
Wednesday, June 12 vs. Brooks
Thursday, June 13 at Weyburn
Friday, June 14 at Weyburn
Saturday, June 15 at Weyburn
Sunday, June 16 vs. Moose Jaw
Tuesday, June 18 vs. Lethbridge
Wednesday, June 19 vs. Okotoks
Thursday, June 20 at Lethbridge
Friday, June 21 vs. Edmonton
Saturday, June 22 vs. Edmonton
Sunday, June 23 vs. Edmonton
Monday, June 24 at Regina
Tuesday, June 25 at Regina
Wednesday, June 26 at Regina
Saturday, June 29 vs. Yorkton
Sunday, June 30 vs. Yorkton
Monday, July 1 vs. Yorkton
Wednesday, July 3 at Swift Current
Thursday, July 4 vs. Edmonton
Friday, July 5 at Swift Current
Tuesday, July 9 at Okotoks
Wednesday, July 10 at Okotoks
Thursday, July 11 vs. Lethbridge
Friday, July 12 at Brooks
Saturday, July 13 vs. Brooks
Sunday, July 14 at Brooks
Tuesday, July 16 at Okotoks
Wednesday, July 17 at Okotoks
Thursday, July 18 vs. Okotoks
Friday, July 19 vs. Moose Jaw
Saturday, July 20 vs. Moose Jaw
Tuesday, July 23 at Edmonton
Wednesday, July 24 at Edmonton
Thursday, July 25 at Swift Current
Friday, July 26 vs. Melville
Saturday, July 27 vs. Melville
Sunday, July 28 vs. Melville
Tuesday, July 30 at Lethbridge
Wednesday, July 31 at Okotoks
Thursday, Aug. 1 vs. Fort McMurray
Friday, Aug. 2 vs. Fort McMurray
Saturday, Aug. 3 vs. Fort McMurray
Sunday, Aug. 4 vs. Lethbridge
Monday, Aug. 5 at Lethbridge
Tuesday, Aug. 6 vs. Okotoks

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